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I was wondering if anyone out there has experienced any kind of discrimination towards them especially in the work place?
Myself there are two incidents and shockingly the first of the two times the employer happened to be no other than the national health service, shocker!
After my interview I was sent off for a medical as you might expect only during my medical I was told by the doctor that the work I wanted to do wasn't really suitable for someone with diabetes.
At the time I was 18 years old and very fired up over this because I had done the job for almost 12 months prior to this within a government youth training scheme and never had any problems.
I appealed the decision with the backing of my liaison nurse and consultant.
I won the appeal but was offered a 3 month contract in which I was professionally bullied and then made redundant.
This caused a very severe time for me. I became very depressed and had convinced myself the doctors were all wrong so I stopped taking insulin and in turn became very very poorly.
In many ways it was the point I accepted my diabetes and things got a lot easier for me after that.
All had been well again and I'd not experienced anything like that again until 10 years ago, just as I'd thought this kind of thing just didn't happen anymore.
I took a job in a multinational food production company who I can't name for legal reasons as the end result of that was a massive court case and as part of the compensation deal there was a gag order in place.
I've never had the chance to share any of this with anyone that may have similar stories. I'd be interested to know if anyone else had suffered negative reactions in this way.
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Myself there are two incidents and shockingly the first of the two times the employer happened to be no other than the national health service, shocker!
After my interview I was sent off for a medical as you might expect only during my medical I was told by the doctor that the work I wanted to do wasn't really suitable for someone with diabetes.
At the time I was 18 years old and very fired up over this because I had done the job for almost 12 months prior to this within a government youth training scheme and never had any problems.
I appealed the decision with the backing of my liaison nurse and consultant.
I won the appeal but was offered a 3 month contract in which I was professionally bullied and then made redundant.
This caused a very severe time for me. I became very depressed and had convinced myself the doctors were all wrong so I stopped taking insulin and in turn became very very poorly.
In many ways it was the point I accepted my diabetes and things got a lot easier for me after that.
All had been well again and I'd not experienced anything like that again until 10 years ago, just as I'd thought this kind of thing just didn't happen anymore.
I took a job in a multinational food production company who I can't name for legal reasons as the end result of that was a massive court case and as part of the compensation deal there was a gag order in place.
I've never had the chance to share any of this with anyone that may have similar stories. I'd be interested to know if anyone else had suffered negative reactions in this way.
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